Posts filed under: Guest Post: Life Challenges

When Your Health is Shaken

Has a difficult diagnosis left you feeling as if your health is shaken? We are honored to share Katie’s brave words about the cancer journey that has left her feeling......

Can We Truly Be Content No Matter What?

Content: a state of peaceful happiness; a state of satisfaction; pleased; fulfilled; happy; cheerful; glad; unworried; untroubled; at ease; at peace; tranquil; serene Wow. Those words paint such a vivid picture......

One Marriage. One Family. Under God. Indivisible.

By Cheryl McKay   When I see the phrase “strength to thrive in military life” as the motto of Planting Roots, my heart stirs. It is definitely not a lifestyle......

Who’s Got Your Back?

I froze with fear, overlooking paradise. While serving at Barbers Point Naval Air Station, Hawaii, my best friends Vicky and Steve decided to climb the Stairway to Heaven or Haʻikū......

Guest Post: Reintegration and God’s Strength

Our family is all in one place. We are together. We should be happy. We aren’t. I feel guilty about that. I prayed for my husband to return. I long......

Guest Post: Military Marriage and God’s Grace

  My Christian military marriage is mediocre. And I’m sad. The past few years have brought a number of challenges. We’re in the season of life where our parents are......

Sovereignty–Part 2

  (If you missed it, you can read part one of Sovereignty here.) What God is doing here is not blame-shifting or passing the buck on the “weeds in his......

Sovereignty–Part 1

Sovereignty. It’s a weighty word with an even weightier meaning. We sometimes hear it used in sermons. We occasionally run across it in a Bible study or devotional reading. And......

Golden Ticket

I am Veruca Salt. You may remember her, the spoiled girl in the red suit who wants everything at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and she wants it NOW! Being a......

Military Dads and Daughters

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 As a military mom, I......